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The Ministry of Healing
We are not to let the future, with its hard problems, its unsat-
isfying prospects, make our hearts faint, our knees tremble, our
hands hang down. “Let him take hold of My strength,” says the
Mighty One, “that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make
peace with Me.”
Isaiah 27:5
. Those who surrender their lives to His
guidance and to His service will never be placed in a position for
which He has not made provision. Whatever our situation, if we
are doers of His word, we have a Guide to direct our way; what-
ever our perplexity, we have a sure Counselor; whatever our sorrow,
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bereavement, or loneliness, we have a sympathizing Friend.
If in our ignorance we make missteps, the Saviour does not
forsake us. We need never feel that we are alone. Angels are our
companions. The Comforter that Christ promised to send in His
name abides with us. In the way that leads to the City of God there
are no difficulties which those who trust in Him may not overcome.
There are no dangers which they may not escape. There is not a
sorrow, not a grievance, not a human weakness, for which He has
not provided a remedy.
None need abandon themselves to discouragement and despair.
Satan may come to you with the cruel suggestion, “Yours is a hope-
less case. You are irredeemable.” But there is hope for you in Christ.
God does not bid us overcome in our own strength. He asks us to
come close to His side. Whatever difficulties we labor under, which
weigh down soul and body, He waits to make us free.
He who took humanity upon Himself knows how to sympathize
with the sufferings of humanity. Not only does Christ know every
soul, and the peculiar needs and trials of that soul, but He knows
all the circumstances that chafe and perplex the spirit. His hand is
outstretched in pitying tenderness to every suffering child. Those
who suffer most have most of His sympathy and pity. He is touched
with the feeling of our infirmities, and He desires us to lay our
perplexities and troubles at His feet and leave them there.
It is not wise to look to ourselves and study our emotions. If
we do this, the enemy will present difficulties and temptations that
weaken faith and destroy courage. Closely to study our emotions and
give way to our feelings is to entertain doubt and entangle ourselves
in perplexity. We are to look away from self to Jesus.